Lawn Edgers & Pavers

Mowing Strip

• Edging with pavers has another practical application that makes this technique a good idea. Edging can provide a path that facilitates and even speeds up the mowing process. Laying down a line of bricks or stones can create a border against which you can mow to realize a sharper and cleaner line.

Aesthetics

• Pavers can be used to heighten the aesthetics of a patio surface as well as help to prevent grass from growing up over it. A border of bricks or stones or concrete around the patio makes it look more professional by dressing it up to a greater degree than a plain foundation.

Uniformity

• Choice of paving materials can do much to lend your landscape design uniformity of style and design. Use the same pavers to line a walkway and patio, and to set off individual plants like trees or a garden to link the various aspects of your yard into a single, integrated whole.

Edging Trench

• The simplest method for edging a lawn does not require pavers, but the same process can be applied to an edging design that will use bricks or stone. Dig a shallow trench to separate the lawn from something like a garden bed. The cheapest alternative to creating this kind of edging is to fill in the hole with gravel.

Cast Concrete Pavers

• After digging the trench, you can make a more aesthetically pleasing lawn edging by placing cast concrete edgings into it. These casts can be acquired in a variety of designs to provide a higher sense of style to your edging plans. Setting the casts into the trench increases their ability to prevent the lawn from spreading, while offering more pleasing visual effect than bricks or concrete rounds.

Brick Pavers

• Bricks are an effective for creating a precise, straight line. Brick pavers can be set directly into the soil horizontally, vertically or at angles. This flexibility in how the bricks are set allow for the introduction of some creativity that you can't get with concrete casts. The variety of colors available with bricks also allows edging to be marked off from one region of the yard by hue.